Desiré Van der Heever

• Analyse sales trends, market data, and promotional activities to forecast demand accurately. • Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to align forecasts with business goals. • Monitor stock levels across the supply chain to prevent overstocking or stockouts. • Implement systems and strategies to optimize inventory turnover and reduce holding costs. • Ensure timely delivery of products to customers or retailers while minimizing logistics costs. • Coordinate with 3PL (third-party logistics) providers if used. • Work closely with production teams to align manufacturing schedules with demand forecasts and inventory levels. • Identify potential disruptions in the supply chain (e.g., supplier failures, transport delays). • Collaborate with finance, marketing, operations, and retail teams to ensure supply chain alignment with business strategy. • Ensure optimal stock levels are maintained across warehouses and distribution points to meet customer demand without overstocking. • Implement and enforce FIFO (First-In, First-Out) principles across all storage facilities to minimize stock obsolescence and ensure product freshness, particularly for perishable and date-sensitive goods. • Perform regular cycle counts and reconciliations. • Perform regular cycle counts and reconciliations at 3rd party warehousing. • Conduct regular checks (weekly or monthly) to identify short-dated stock (products nearing expiry) and expired stock across all storage locations. • Use inventory management systems to flag stock within a defined "expiry alert window" (e.g., 3–6 months before expiry depending on product shelf life). • Manage and control all imports from USA, Turkey, Spain etc. • Report all expired and short-dated losses monthly to the supply chain and finance teams. • Conduct root cause analysis to identify reasons for stock expiry (e.g., over-ordering, poor rotation, slow-moving SKUs). • Isolate expired stock immediately from saleable inventory.

Key Responsibilities • Group procurement for 3 Branches (Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town) • Management of procurement teams nationally as well as local internal sales team • Responsible for R230 Mil procurement spend across the group • Savings of R25Mil annually through various initiatives and group buying leverage • Developed Vitafoam procurement strategy by implementing import and local sourcing model • Preparation of procurement purchasing plan for the quarter, presented to the group CEO, CFO and business executives and executive thereof. • Review factory production plan to determine trends as well as ordering of optimal raw material quantities to ensure service delivery • SNOP process owner to ensure alignment between forecast and raw material purchasing • SLOB management and liquidation • Analyze sales data to determine changes in raw material requirements and potential out of stocks • MRP – system setup and validation of output of the system • Supplier management, development and performance management and deviations of approved suppliers. • Coordinate and responsible for imported chemicals, spares, documentation, freight forwarding as well as landed cost modelling. • Manage goods in transit (GITs) between warehouses and interbranch. • Communicate relevant information such as supply issues, and the impacts of inventory levels. • Ensure optimum inventory levels levering pricing, supplier credit terms and availability while ensuring optimum net working capital levels are maintained. • Set budgeted spend and review committed costs against actual. • Development, implementation and management of procurement and planning policies and procedures. • Support quality audits by measuring supplier performance. • Lead the organization’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) initiatives to obtain the best possible BEE level. • Ensure all new suppliers are vetted to align with company’s BEE policy.

• Daily sales report – invoicing / figures / efficiency / units etc • Daily stock take on RM • Daily stock ordering of RM • Balancing of outstanding customer orders vs RM needed daily • Daily follow up on outstanding purchase orders • Correcting purchase orders once receipts are done • Receipting of RM invoices • Checking FG stock before running production – Daily • Daily planning of orders to be delivered for the month • Creating of picking lists for trucks • Costings • Creditors • Debtors • Weekly wages • Controlling backlog / late deliveries daily • Assisting on delivery notes / invoices • Checking all purchase order invoices vs actual stock ordered daily • Controlling purchase orders vs deliveries from Suppliers and tracking their performance • Capturing of monthly stock take figures • Accounts reconciliation • Sales Orders • Invoicing of Sales Orders System used: Sage

• Daily sales report – invoicing / figures / efficiency / units etc • Daily stock take on RM • Daily stock ordering of RM • Controlling new and cancellations on Dynamics • Balancing of outstanding customer orders vs RM needed daily • Daily follow up on outstanding purchase orders • Correcting purchase orders once receipts are done • Receipting of RM invoices on Dynamics • Checking FG stock before running production – Daily • Daily planning of orders to be delivered for the month • Creating of picking lists for trucks • Creating works orders for orders to be manufactured • Controlling promise board / list • Controlling backlog / late deliveries daily • Checking works orders status before a truck gets invoiced, manually start / finish works orders in order to invoice • Invoicing to be done after every truck has been delivery notes • Assisting on delivery notes / invoices • Checking all purchase order invoices vs actual stock ordered daily • Controlling purchase orders vs deliveries from Suppliers and tracking their performance • Liaising with customers re order deliveries on a daily basis, sending schedules, making bookings etc • Capturing of monthly stock take figures • Controlling intercompany invoicing / delivery notes when corrections are made System used: Pastel and Dynamics 365